How to Send Notification in Android Using Firebase

The Covid-19 Pandemic has driven everybody indoors, most businesses and offices now prefer to function on a hybrid model. Which allows the employees to work from home as well as the office. This has increased the number of mobile users on the internet.

According to AlphaKlick Solutions, more than 70% of the traffic on the internet comes from mobile, while 99% of the mobile OS market is jointly possessed by Android and Apple, Android controls a 73% share of the market.

Over the past few years, one of the most common questions asked by developers is how to send push notifications in Android using Firebase.

How to Send Notification in Android Using Firebase — Alphaklick Solutions

What is Firebase?

Firebase is a backend as a Service (BaaS) Platform that offers unique solutions to the developers of every mobile app development company in the world, by solving issues related to databases, authentication, notifications, etc.

In other words, Firebase is popularly used as a notification service to send push notifications across different OS platforms

What is a Push Notification?

One of the most crucial factors in marketing on android or any other mobile platform is to engage and retain the user’s attention. If you own a custom mobile app for your business, you will know how hard it is to retain users.

A push notification is an alert that is sent to your mobile even if you are not using the device or on another app prompting you to return to the app and see what you have missed.

Steps to Send Push Notification on Android using Firebase

1. Sign in to Firebase Console. (https://console.firebase.google.com )
2. Click Notifications, in the route bar.
3. Click on Snap New Message
4. Enter your message in the message text field. (There is a 1024 character limit )
5. We suggest entering a message name solely for your firebase message list, your audience doesn’t see this name.
6. Set the date and time region according to the receiver, you can either send the message instantly or schedule it to send later for as long as one month. You can also send the same message to all the clients at the same time, just un-select the time and date region from the drop-down menu.
7. Set your objective choices. This is the step where you select Android. But if you want to target iOS as well, once you are done with focusing on the first (Android ) then click target second application and set it up for the second (iOS )
8. Open Advanced Options Menu
9. Here you can save the message as a draft if you want to edit it later or you can schedule it for a specific time and date.

Just remember to follow these simple steps, hope this helps you with sending push notifications using Firebase in Android.